re: Austin & Houston Ranked Most Overvalued Housing Markets in U.S.

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Fort Worth also has by far the best downtown of any of the major TX cities. Not full of disgusting bums and tourists like Austin and SA and not gigantic business parks like Dallas and Houston

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I agree with you although I did live near the north gate of LSU, disgusting bums are nothing to me

I am not buying all of the Atlanta vs Texas cities comparisons. The only two things I see missing from Houston/Dallas/Austin are comparable mountains and white water. Fishing of all types is easily accessible and trumps what is available to folks in Atlanta. You could be off the coast of Louisiana by the time you get to the sea in Atl. Hiking is readily accessible, the terrain is just different. I would say it is even more diverse (just lacking said mountains).

Not sure where it fits in the discussion but the Texas cities mentioned here also have really cheap and quick flights to most of south america. I can be in costa rica quicker than ATL.

I certainly agree with Houston not being aesthetically pleasing. They certainly love to cling to the "historic" landmarks of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. The new construction apartments and other buildings are also a little too trendy and will wind up looking the same way in 20 years. Houston is a better place to live than visit though.

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Fishing of all types is easily accessible and trumps what is available to folks in Atlanta.

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I don't see how this is true. I'm assuming you're giving the freshwater edge to Texas, which is fine I suppose. Coldwater fishing is many times better in Georgia than Texas.

Anyway, I think most people will find Texas more limited than the better spots in the Southeast for outdoor recreation. Admittedly, if you like desert or Big Bend Texas is obviously excellent, and some folks will. But while I love the Hill Country and west Texas for uniqueness, I much prefer to have the Appalachians within a couple hours. I'll throw in the barrier islands of Georgia, which are often overlooked and pretty unique, and that Georgia has easier access to "nice" coastline.

But this arose mostly from talking about Austin becoming an outdoor mecca, doing more with less. I think Texas has a lot of great things going on and is a very attractive state. If Dallas had beaches and closer fly fishing opportunities I'd already be living there.

How did New Orleans not make it on this list?

And how is Austin and Houston on this list but also on their list for Best Buy Cities?

So is it a good investment or not?

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I'll throw in the barrier islands of Georgia, which are often overlooked and pretty unique, and that Georgia has easier access to "nice" coastline.

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Ummmmm? High Island, Galveston, Matagorda Peninsula, Matagorda Island, and the Padre Islands all say hello.

If you have a boat, you can camp on Matagorda Island for almost the entire year except when they are running the deer hunts out there.

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And how is Austin and Houston on this list but also on their list for Best Buy Cities? So is it a good investment or not?

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I see Houston so many overvalued housing market lists and at the same time so many best buy lists. People can't make up their mind.

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and it's amazing at how many people get upset over marketing.

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really referring to their penchant for rewriting history, ex., the new governor was sworn in using a bible that was believed to have belonged to Sam Houston, not really a shred of evidence that it was, but it might have been, so now it's Sammy's old good book, just recently someone found some old furniture near here that was believed to have been in the Alamo, again, no credible evidence that it ever was, but they hustled it down to San Antonio for all of the world to see, every little ugly shite hole town renovates a couple of buildings and it becomes "historical" even there's not much historical significance, looking at you Grapevine, this goes on and on, they just make up history and traditions here, constantly

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To some extent. The fly fishing opportunities, kayaking, hiking and mountains are limited. They're there, but not in the way you'll find in Tennessee.

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I can believe that, but Austin's appeal is that many of the activities are within a 30 minute drive from downtown, some only minutes. That's just one of the many big draws the city has. Does Nashville have that?

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Ummmmm? High Island, Galveston, Matagorda Peninsula, Matagorda Island, and the Padre Islands all say hello.

If you have a boat, you can camp on Matagorda Island for almost the entire year except when they are running the deer hunts out there.

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I'm not sure what the point is on this one. I agree Texas has barrier islands and coastline. I disagree that the barrier islands of Texas are better than Georgia's, and clearly disagree that Texas has easy access to nice coastline.

Obviously if you're in Houston you're closer to coastline than Atlanta/Nashville. But I doubt my most loyalist Texas friends would compare Texas coastline to St. Simons, Little St. Simons, Sea Island, Cumberland, etc., and that doesn't include fairly easy access to the Gulf from Atlanta.

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Houston has a unique Utopia of Bums downtown. They are downright agressive.

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Yeah the bus stop/transit center bums are a special breed. I stay the frick away from there